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Deebster

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  • How do you pronounce in words the following two references to money: "6½d" and "6s. 6d." from a 1904 text?

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  • Yup, as long as 6.5 is pronounced "six and a half" because "six point five" is too modern for old money.

    Edit: and ha'penny is pronounced HAYP-nee /h ɛ́j p n ɪj/

  • How do you count on your fingers? How high can you count?

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  • I do that (but only for one hand), and I've also associated months with each segment.

    I had to think how you got to 156 instead of 12² but not for too long.

  • Clock but it's SELECT Digits FROM Numbers ORDER BY DigitName DESC

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  • Again, that's not how clocks work. The label on an analogue clock appears at the end of the hour segment. If the hour hand is halfway between two times, it's half past the lower one.

    If, as you argue, two is at the top (like in OP's picture), that means that when the day starts and the hour hand is pointing up then it's already in the second hour. Half an hour later it would appear halfway between two and twelve which is an hour ahead of where it should be.

  • Clock but it's SELECT Digits FROM Numbers ORDER BY DigitName DESC

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  • But that's not how clocks work - when the day starts on a normal clock it's not 1 o'clock straight away, there's an hour that happens first. The label is at the end of the hour's segment.

    Think about it this way: when a new day begins, where are the clock hands?

    I did, the hour hand would be pointing at the (end of the) final hour, which is now eight. The minute hand's position is a whole different discussion.

  • Clock but it's SELECT Digits FROM Numbers ORDER BY DigitName DESC

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  • Indeed, which is why 8 should be at the top.

    The hours have been reassigned in reverse alphabetical order. This means the number which you hit at noon/midnight is "eight".

  • xkcd #3164: Metric Tip

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  • Often both! Miles on the outside as the main display, but km can be found on a smaller inner ring

  • Clock but we saved DB space by just returning the index of the array of DigitNames

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  • Clock but it's SELECT Digits FROM Numbers ORDER BY DigitName DESC

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  • I'm happy to believe it's intentional - some metahumour (metaprogrammerhumour).

  • Clock but it's SELECT Digits FROM Numbers ORDER BY DigitName DESC

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  • Shouldn't 2 be where 1 normally is, etc and 8 be at the top?

    edit: I see you'd posted a similar one a few days ago and that had the same thing. Off by one, an evergreen programming error!

  • Interactive Torus in JavaScript

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  • This creates a perspective effect where objects farther away (larger z) appear smaller:

    Oh, that's on purpose! Strange choice, I guess it's just to show you can...

  • Diptyx is an open source, dual-screen eReader (crowdfunding)

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  • Didn’t they recently removed that ability?, as well as the ability to sideload mobi file format?

    I don't keep up with Kindle news any more, but I just sent a book from Calibre over USB the same as before, and mobi was their own proprietary format* so good riddance to that (epub is the standard format outside the Amazon world).

    that they bought from someone else

  • Diptyx is an open source, dual-screen eReader (crowdfunding)

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  • When I still lived in the UK I preferred physical books and I still have three crates of them in a lockup. After looking at a screen all day at work, reading paper was a balm for my eyes and my brain.

    I only bought a Kindle when I moved to a different country since it was far cheaper than shipping the books.

    Not to sound like a Kobo ad, but I feel like I am the customer and not the product with my Kobo - I can install software, and even SSH into it as root, and I'm not tracked. Of course, that could change, unlike with good ol' books, and books also never run out of battery or get scratches on every page (the Kobo's screen is far from scratch resistant).

  • Diptyx is an open source, dual-screen eReader (crowdfunding)

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  • (not) owning and (not) controlling our ebooks

    Dunno about that; there's plenty of options to own and control your ebooks:

    Some books are available without DRM (e.g. some on Kobo.com) or you can strip the DRM, and then keep them on your own storage. You can file and manage metadata with calibre and you can make them available to download using calibre-web.

    A stock Kindle will allow adding books via USB or Amazon's by-email service. A rooted Kindle will let you install Koreader which can talk to calibre-web. A Kobo or many (most?) other ereaders will let you do these things without needing to jump through hoops.

  • A URL to respond with when your boss says "But ChatGPT Said "

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  • I'm definitely bookmarking this one.

  • Behind the scenes test shots just discovered

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  • pic 1: Dumb and Data

  • I ditched Linux for Windows 11 for one week - and found 9 big problems

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  • That's how I understood it, but you could read it as saying the author's experience with Win11 revealed problems with his previous setup (i.e. Linux).

  • I ditched Linux for Windows 11 for one week - and found 9 big problems

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  • On first glance, I understood the title as saying there were nine problems in Win11; it might be ambiguous but I don't think it's fair to label it as very deceptive.

  • Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00]

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  • Hmm, I do remember installing that at one point - it might be that I needed to extract a key from it to configure the plugin. I was on Windows then so it wouldn't have been too hard.

  • Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00]

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  • The fact that they fixed the jailbreak just as I was about to do it was part of the reason I moved to Kobo (went with the Clara BW and am very happy with the upgrade).